Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Savage, 27, Forman's leading man, agrees. He plays a sober, clean-cut student activist who gets drafted and is brought to today's be-in by freaky friends for a preinduction fling. "The spirit of the '60s is only something to feel good about," says Savage, displaying all the articulateness that distinguished the youth of that period. "These kids ... some of the memories are happy," he adds, and his eyes mist over with happy memories...
...junk or ganja, they get off on quaintly named exercises like psychocalisthenics, karma processing and catharsis for the Acceptance of Change. As we are assured by our guide on this sojurn into Aricaland, "The same general principles operating in the system at large are also operative in the spirit and body of humanity...
...Eklund 62 president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, calls this "the spirit of coming right with people." He does what he can, whether by sitting on the boards of a fistful of black, Puerto Rican, Indian and women's organizations or by compiling a dictionary of the Chippewa language (he grew up near a Chippewa reservation in Minnesota). Eklund views the world with the perpetual optimism of the insurance salesman, and one of his happiest days came a few Thursdays ago, when he named 47 new corporate officers. Thirteen are women-and that goes far beyond tokenism...
California Girls (NBC). A bikini-clad comedy about two 18-year-old girls who want to be lifeguards. One, sarcastic with a good body; the other, a free spirit, well tanned and not unattractive...
...himself with Communist Party politics, eventually becoming deputy chairman of the Union of Soviet Composers. His political stature crumbled in 1948, however, when together with Composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev he was condemned by the par ty's Central Committee for works that "smelled strongly of the spirit of bourgeois music of Europe and America." Khachaturian apologized publicly and regained Soviet favor firmly enough to visit Washington, D.C., in 1968, conducting his own work and using as his encore the brassy Sabre Dance (from his ballet Gayane), a three-minute piece that once topped the U.S. pop charts...